Hello everyone! 👋 If you hadn't heard already, we are opening a brand new bookshop for you 😍 Perfectly placed on High Holborn for all your bookish needs, we'll be opening in early December 📚 Keep an eye out for more details

We're absolutely thrilled with our beautiful Christmas windows by Our Tiny Windows We loved our Essex Dogs window so much that we just had to invite Ash and Holly back again! Such a talented pair, we hope you love it just as much as we do 🦊

Our novel and novella submissions have now reopened - we're looking forward to seeing some new brilliant manuscripts! More information about what we're looking for and how to submit is below 👇

These writing prompts are wonderful

#DYK this Monday we will be celebrating 30 years of #ForwardPrizes? 🥳🎉 Join us in Manchester for the Oscars of the poetry world! Can't make the event? Then watch winner announcements & readings on the Livestream #poetry WATCH contactmcr.com/shows/forward-…

First drafts and redrafts and taking criticism really badly - spilling all the secrets with Ian McMillan, @DameDeniseMina, @pollypaulusma and Paul Tran This evening, 22:00, BBC Radio 3. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00… @R3TheVerb #amwriting #amrewriting #amrewritingagain

Lovely for me and The Stinging Fly that Dance Move is one of the books of the year for John Self is now on Bluesky and Mia Levitin. Thank you! So appreciated! irishtimes.com/culture/books/…

I just subscribed to Story Street, a brand new newsletter from the wonderful @TheJanePorter janeporter.substack.com/?utm_medium=we…

This Christmas, we're supporting those in need by partnering with @TrussellTrust, one of the UK's leading food bank charities Head to our website to purchase one of our Food Bank Bundles for your loved ones to help those in need this festive season 🎄 saraband.net/shop/

This is so gorgeous

The frost performs its secret ministry - Coleridge

"The color of springtime is in the flowers; the color of winter is in the imagination.” - Terri Guillemets Frosty scenes of seed heads, leaves and webs photographed on my walk this morning. #Wildflowerhour #Nature

Buddhist temple in the snow

Why, yes, I did make a gingerbread bookshop.

Angels over Piccadilly

Snowflake on a raven's wing. (Photo by Shawn Bergman)

A kiss to wish you all a Happy New Year. Been a big year for us, bringing us back together to record for the first time in 23 yrs. Never imagined in Jan that this would happen. Yet here we are. New music very soon. Pic: Juergen Teller, 1999

A nice moment - skylarks singing this morning, then a copy of Wild Air dropped through letter box. Thanks to all at 4th Estate Books who helped to make this happen. Out 13th April.

Happy publication day to James Macdonald Lockhart whose new book #WildAir explores the magic of birdsong. Congratulations James! May it fly off the shelves. #nature #birds 4th Estate Books

A classic Plodcast – a quest for skylark song with James Macdonald Lockhart on the northernmost edge of the Cotswolds. The larks ascended… open.spotify.com/episode/7aulJp… Don't miss James's magical new book on birdsong: Wild Air